Chapter 168 The best time to stretch your muscles

In the evening, Yun Zhao couldn't help but look in the direction of Wu Sizang, he always felt that there was still a fire burning in which direction.

What Han Lingshan said is completely different from what was written in his report.

This time, it was not only the officials, slave owners, and large landowners who were affected, but also the monks in the temples.

The entire aristocracy of Uszzang was basically swept away by the slave revolt this time.

According to the figures on the paperwork, at least 21,000 people died in Qamdo alone.

The population of the entire Chamdo is less than 60,000.

There were not so many people in the aristocracy, which meant that anyone who owned property was basically swallowed up by this trend.

As Zhang Guozhu said before, how much the slaves suffered, how crazy the anger that erupted now.

Sun Guoxin opened the shackles in the hearts of the slaves, which made the slaves no longer have any scruples, under the light of the Buddha, they even thought that this was a war between the real Buddha and the false Buddha, and they needed to devote themselves wholeheartedly.

Thinking about it, the Buddha should be compassionate, he should not let them live the most miserable life, he should not be indifferent to the misery of the world, after all, the Buddha would cut the meat and feed the eagle when he saw it hungry......

The rule of the nobles of Uszang over the serfs was actually far more brutal than Zhu Ming's rule over the people of the Ming Dynasty, and if there were no spiritual shackles, Uszang would have been in chaos a long time ago.

Now, Han Lingshan has liberated the slaves from the action, and Sun Guoxin has liberated the slaves from the spirit, and these slaves who also know that food and clothing are the best things in the world will naturally follow their own needs and move forward all the way.

In other words, it is not that the Wusizang slaves do not want to resist, but they do not know how to resist, and in this regard, Han Lingshan's experience is very sufficient.

After a method is used, it is found to be very useful, and in the Lantian Imperial Court, it will be immediately promoted.

Duan Guoyu is now in the Western Regions, and he is also doing the same thing, and the eighteen great imams under his command have already begun to preach in the Western Regions.

You must know that people in the Western Regions generally believe in the old religion, and anyone who wants to join the sect and get help from the gods must pay a lot of money to the temple.

Now, blessed are the believers in the Western Regions, there are eighteen great imams from the Eastern Jade Mountain, who have also begun to spread the gospel here, and they also need to be paid, but they don't need much.

Take a sip of the water you offered, even if you have already dedicated, eat a green date you offered, you have dedicated, in short, as long as you are willing to believe in Protestantism, even if you pinch a handful of soil for them, they will call you a brother...... (It's not apocryphal, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Protestantism in the northwest defeated the old religion in this way, but the prophet of Protestantism was beheaded by the old religion in collusion with the Manchu government, and every year on the day when the Protestant prophet was killed, the prophet was killed in Lanzhou, and he would be flooded by crowds)

In Yun Zhao's view, free teachings are easier to spread, after all, the people in the Western Regions are still mostly poor.

Duan Guoyu's army was stationed in Ili, and the heavily armed army ensured the smooth preaching of the imams, and at the same time, the imams also made the people of the Western Regions recognize this army from the side, and no longer follow Lord Bayi to be hostile to this army.

At this time, most of the Western Regions were still under Mongol rule, but these Mongols never ruled the region, and they basically did not leave their cities except for collecting taxes and looting.

So the imams, who already had some followers, turned their attention to the shepherds, farmers, robbers, and horse thieves outside the city......

Duan Guoyu was extremely satisfied with the work of these imams.

It is impossible to want the people here to abandon their faith completely.

The land of the Western Regions is vast and sparsely populated, and human life is like a mayfly in front of nature, in this lonely and terrifying environment, a lonely person cannot live a day without the company of the gods.

After all, the people living in the city are a minority, and the herdsmen, farmers, and robbers outside the city are the mainstream group, and after these imams have completed the move of the countryside to surround the city.

Duan Guoyu was about to consider launching a campaign to expel the old sect in the Western Regions.

Only in this way can we get a piece of land full of exotic customs for the Ming Dynasty like Han Lingshan, and most importantly, through the Yushan Ala Temple, the Lantian Imperial Court can completely complete the rule of the Western Regions.

At this time, religion had become a weapon in Yun Zhao's hands, and it was the sharpest weapon.

Ignorant Mongols would not have noticed this small change.

The greedy old imams will not find out, after all, for them, the rich city talent is their main target for looting.

The Western Regions was in a strange balance, the Ming Dynasty and the Dzungar Khan were still facing each other in Ili, and the Dzungar Khan did not have the confidence to completely defeat Duan Guoyu.

Duan Guoyu was also not ready to swallow Dzungar Khan in one go, and before the number of people under his command did not reach an order of magnitude, Duan Guoyu felt that a peaceful confrontation should be a good thing.

He needs time, he needs people, he needs support from the local people.

Anyway, the Han and Mongols who currently rule the Western Regions are all outsiders, and Duan Guoyu feels that he and the Mongols should be on the same starting line.

For the natives, they have been ruled by countless people, so they don't care who the new ruler is, anyway, they all have to pay taxes, and whoever wants less taxes is a good benevolent ruler.

In this regard, the Mongols had no way to compete with the Han Chinese.

One side collects taxes according to a balanced value after statistical calculations, and the other side simply and rudely asks to pay taxes, and many tax amounts are simply determined whether the officials are happy or not, and they don't care about the lives of the people.

Therefore, the common people in the Western Regions under the rule of Duan Guoyu generally lived better than in the places ruled by the Mongols.

By the time the first year of China arrived, Duan Guoyu had already begun to accept refugees who had escaped from the Mongols.

In the Western Regions, the most important thing is land, and talent is the biggest source of wealth.

Duan Guoyu already knew unmistakably that many people in the city-states of the Western Regions were expecting him to defeat the Dzungar Khan and live under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The dark clouds of war have hung over the Western Regions, and the stupid Mongols are still dreaming that the Western Regions will always be the place of the Mongols.

What they didn't know was that Yun Zhao had already sent another army of 50,000 men to leave Zhangye in the spring and arrive in Ili in the fall.

If he could kill all the enemies around him, Yun Zhao thought that he would not need to pay attention to any defense line.

As long as the country is strong, it is a very disadvantageous thing for oneself to demarcate national borders.

National borders are a precondition for small countries to complain to the world, and for a strong country, they are a kind of restraint and constraint, and what big countries hate most is to be constrained.

Hong Chengchou returned to the southwest and was also actively implementing the new policy, but what he had to do in the southwest was to ask the people of all ethnic groups who were hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to come out of the mountains and forests first.

Otherwise, a village and a stockade are a hundred and ten miles away, and there is no way to really rule here.

Therefore, the method he used was very cruel - to cut off the salt trade of the mountain people......

Only those who come to live at the foot of the mountain can buy salt, and it is cheap and of high quality.

Those who descended the mountain received not only salt, but also land, which was more precious than gold in the southwest.

In order to speed up the mountain people to leave their homeland and move down the mountain, Hong Chengchou had to send a small army to pretend to be robbers into the mountain to destroy the houses of the head people in the cottage, destroy their stockade, and kill the head people when necessary, so that the entire cottage became a homeless person and had to go down the mountain.

The endless mountains in the southwest are the biggest unstable factor for the Lantian Imperial Court.

When Hong Chengchou destroyed these cottages, he even found an ancient dynasty in the mountains that lasted for thousands of years...... Although the number of these dynasties was less than five thousand, this did not prevent them from claiming to be kings in their own places.

There are also tribes that are almost still in the most primitive slash-and-burn farming, and the most exaggerated one is still eating raw food, just like the wild people, who live on the cliffs, catching rock sheep for a living, and watching them walk on the cliffs.

Hong Chengchou immediately ordered that all these people be recruited into the barracks with food, and he felt that Jin Hu must use these people in Jiaozhi and these places.

With Hong Chengchou's unremitting efforts, the people in the nearby mountains and forests have slowly come out of the jungle and began to live around the city.

At this time, the population in the southwest was still seriously insufficient, so Hong Chengchou still wrote to Yun Zhao, hoping to continue to follow Zhu Ming's national policy of "changing the land and returning to the stream" and assimilate the savages in the southwest little by little.

It is doomed to be a misfortune for a small country to live on the periphery of a large country, especially when there is an ambitious king in this large country, and their disaster will befall them completely.

The reason why countless great countries have become great powers is not that they were born with such a vast land, but that they have been slowly expanded by successive kings bit by bit.

As long as your history is long enough, as long as you can merge with each other, these lands will become part of the land of the great powers, and this has been the case since ancient times.

This is how the Chinese dragon totem was created.

It is said that the earliest dragons were no different from a snake, with a horse's face, bull's eyes, antlers, whiskers, eagle claws, and scales, all obtained by devouring them continuously.

So, expansion is a country's instinct.

The reason why we don't expand is simply because the cost of expansion is too high.

For Yun Zhao, now is the time when the expansion cost is the cheapest and the easiest to get, and if he can't show his arms at this time, he will definitely be written in history as the stupidest king in history.